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...In the US, the S&P 500 had its best first quarter since 2019. Fixed income funds reported inflows of $42bn and equity funds received $18bn, for total long-term flows of $76bn....
...The average value of semiconductors per car is forecast to rise from $700 in 2020 to $1,138 by 2028, according to S&P Global Mobility....
...S&P 500 and options tied to the Vix....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 closed up 0.9 per cent, at a new record, continuing a rally that has pushed the index 27 per cent higher since October. The Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3 per cent....
...Either way, the S&P 500 has gained about 10 per cent so far in 2023 despite the laundry list of risks and shouty warnings of imminent disaster....
...Hiring junk bond market stalwarts helped, with Drahi enlisting as top executives the likes of Morgan Stanley’s former top telecoms banker Dexter Goei and Dennis Okhuijsen, previously treasurer of “cable...
...Last month, CME Group began offering so-called event contracts to retail investors, so they can bet on the daily up or down price moves on the S&P 500 stock index, gold or crude oil....
...They are not a turnabout,” said Dennis Wamsted, an analyst at the institute....
...Yields will probably remain in the high single digits, according to TPH — still among the best on the S&P....
...Yet Dennis Kelleher, chief executive of Better Markets, a Washington-based financial reform group, said the contracts were more likely to harm retail traders....
...A total of 51 large retailers filed for bankruptcy in the US in 2020 — a decade high, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...S&P Global’s “flash” PMI for the services sector is expected to rise to 45 in September from 43.7 last month....
...Now most S&P 500 companies are run with ruthless efficiency, making leveraged buyouts harder for KKR to pencil out....
...The charge was firmly rebutted today by Michael Saunders, a member of the Bank’s monetary policy committee: “The government very clearly does not set the direction of travel for monetary policy, that is...
...“It’s very possible this weekend could turn out to be one of the busiest for leisure journeys for many years,” said Rod Dennis, of the RAC....
...Monday Italy, May trade balance figures London-based tech start-up Nothing launches its smartphone, Phone (1) Spain, May trade balance figures UK, Rightmove monthly house price index, plus Michael Saunders...
...Dennis Sugrue, S&P’s global environment, social and governance lead for insurance ratings, pointed to the three years between 1990 and 2020 when the insurance industry had to pay out about $150bn in natural...
...“There is an insane amount of leverage in the system,” said Dennis Kelleher, president of the advocacy group Better Markets. “It has created a ticking time bomb.”...
...“You need to be prepared for the unknown, which means building systems that can cope with a 100-fold increase in trades,” said Dennis Dijkstra, chief executive of Flow Traders....
...Michael Saunders: Such comparisons are likely to be misleading....
...“OK, so [several years ago] I took my daughter Calico to the Kentucky Derby, and we did the whole Derby thing, we were sitting in a box with Dennis and, you know, P Diddy and a bunch of other people....
...Smaller insurers in coal-dependent economies are also “unlikely to exit” in the short to medium term, said Dennis Sugrue, Emea sector lead at S&P Global Ratings....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 advanced 1 per cent to close at a record high, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.5 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average continued its rise into record territory...
...It was founded in 1972 by Dennis Tito, former Nasa engineer and later the first space tourist. Tito joined a Russian Soyuz mission in 2001....
...Neil Saunders, managing director of the GlobalData consultancy, said overall retail sales had been resilient....
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